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Aston Martin chief trackside officer Mike Krack said the team needs to reconsider its more reclined driving position after Fernando Alonso retired from the Canadian Grand Prix because he was in too much discomfort in the cockpit. Krack said: "He has been uncomfortable for a while - and never to the point where it was really, like, a show-stopper. It's like a pressure point where you feel that it gets worse and worse. I think we need to reconsider, a little bit, the positioning. You try with these cars to be as low as you can. Maybe we have gone a step too far, but it's something we will need to check."
Toto Wolff says Mercedes may have to turn future battles between Kimi Antonelli and George Russell ādown a notchā if their racing risks costing the team points, after the pair ran close during their duel at the Canadian Grand Prix. Wolff said: "When they were driving behind each other, we were going half a second quicker than everybody behind us, but when they were fighting, we were losing a second to all the others. So we had the gap, we had the margin and it's easy to accept that they are fighting to a certain degree, but obviously that's not going to be always the case. As much as we look very sportsmanlike in Canada allowing it, there could be a situation where we would maybe turn it down a notch."
Pierre Gasly said his eighth place at the Canadian Grand Prix was ādamage limitationā after qualifying 14th and struggling for performance through the weekend. Gasly said: "I must say I'm happy with theā¦ I'll call it damage limitation. The whole weekend, with all the struggles yeah, I'll take these four points definitely. Pretty pleased with that, a very good weekend for the team as well, sixth and eighth so 12 points, it's been a while since we scored that."
Fernando Alonso said he retired from the Canadian Grand Prix because a seat problem in his Aston Martin was getting increasingly painful, after the teamās attempts to fix it did not work. Alonso said: "We had this seat issue where I feel more and more uncomfortable with the laps. The position doesn't feel the right one, and yeah, we were obviously out of the points, quite far from the points, and no threat of rain anymore. So we decided to stop the pain."
Ollie Bearman said Haas ādidn't really deserveā to score a point at the Canadian Grand Prix after he salvaged 10th place in Montreal following what he described as a challenging weekend for the team. Bearman said: "Honestly, I feel like we didn't really deserve that today based on our performance but we'll take it. There's been other weekends where we've probably felt like we deserved it a bit more and didn't get it. Swings and roundabouts, but generally it's been a really challenging weekend for us, as I've been complaining about every interview. But to get points is good."
Lewis Hamilton said Ferrari have been āmoving mountainsā to make him comfortable in the car after he took his best result for the team so far by finishing second at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. Hamilton said: "There's a lot of changes that I've had to ask for. Fred [Vasseur, team principal] has been super supportive and again also moving mountains in order to make me comfortable and it's finally starting to show in my performance."
Despite FIA tweaks introduced before Miami, the Canadian Grand Prix podium finishers said F1ās 2026 power units still feel unsatisfactory. Lewis Hamilton, who finished second, said: āIt still continues to be a weird feelingā and āIt doesn't feel [like] what motorsport should be.ā Race winner Andrea Kimi Antonelli said the changes āhas definitely helped quite a bit to make things a bit easierā, but added: āSometimes it triggers you a little bit how the system worksā and āwith the PU obviously there's still work to do.ā Max Verstappen, third in Canada, said: āIt's not what Formula 1 should be about. It's way too complex, all of this,ā adding that āF1 just needs to be more pure.ā The trio were more positive about the 2026 chassis rules. Hamilton said āthe car is fundamentally a better designā and āwe can race and get close and follow each other closelyā, while Antonelli said āto follow, at least for now, is much better than last yearā and āYou can actually follow a lot closer and that definitely creates more racing.ā
Charles Leclerc said the Canadian Grand Prix was the āmost difficult weekendā of his Formula 1 career, with the Ferrari driver struggling for feeling and tyre performance on the way to fourth place while team-mate Lewis Hamilton finished second. Leclerc said: "It was a horrible, horrible weekend. I had already said it was probably the most difficult weekend so far of my Formula 1 career. I've finished the race now and I can definitely say it's the most difficult weekend of my Formula 1 career so far. Never could put the tyres in the right window. On my side I've just been struggling. I had no feeling with the car."
George Russell says he feels like āthe gods donāt want meā in the Formula 1 title fight after retiring from the lead of the Canadian Grand Prix with a Mercedes power unit failure as he battled team-mate Kimi Antonelli. Russell said: "Right now, it is his to lose, being so many points ahead. It feels like the gods don't want me to be in this fight. When I look at the safety car timing in Japan, breaking down in China qualifying fighting for pole, breaking down from the lead here. But the pressure is off, I will go out, enjoy every single race and try to win every single race, and I've got nothing to lose."
Isack Hadjar said Red Bullās car was āhard to driveā in the Canadian Grand Prix as he reflected on making too many mistakes in a race where he still finished fifth. Hadjar said: "The car was very fast but hard to drive compared to [Saturday] when I felt more comfortable, so I couldn't push as hard as I wanted. [Saturday] was the best day of the year for me at least, I had a very strong feeling [in the car] that I want to keep happening for the rest of the year and if it does, we will be fighting ahead."
Lewis Hamilton says he is āprobably better withoutā Ferrariās simulator and does not expect to use it to prepare for future races, after taking second place at the Canadian Grand Prix without doing a simulator session at Maranello. Hamilton said: "Now, whether or not I use it to prepare for another race? Probably not. There are just too many risks. If you look at the two best races I've had, I didn't use a simulator. And that's honestly how it was. Pretty much all the championships before, except for probably 2008, I didn't use the sim. So it's not a necessity. It's a tool that can be powerful. But for me, I'm old school. I'm probably better without it."
Lewis Hamilton said he was "so, so happy" after finishing second in the Canadian Grand Prix, calling it his best result since joining Ferrari at the start of last year and welcoming a late-race battle with Max Verstappen. Hamilton said: "Amazing, honestly, I'm so, so happy. A good day of racing and overall just a really solid weekend. I've felt on the up, and the team have done a really amazing job just refining the car. For us to be up there battling, and also to have a good battle with Max finally. So, I am really, really grateful and just so, so happy."
George Russell says he does not understand why anyone wants to change Formula 1ās new technical regulations, after battling Mercedes team-mate Kimi Antonelli for the lead in the Canadian Grand Prix before Russell retired with a power unit issue. Russell said: "I loved it, I thought it was great. And I've not had a battle like this in years. These new cars allow you to do that. These new engines allow you to do that. I don't know why anybody wants to change them... that's only possible because of how these power units are."
Red Bull team principal Laurent Mekies says the team needs occasional āI told youā moments between drivers and engineers in order to keep making progress, after Max Verstappen criticised Red Bullās set-up direction following qualifying in Montreal. Mekies said: "It doesn't mean that we don't have our own little games at saying 'what do you think and what do you think'. But, at the end of the day, we agree on what to try. And then sometimes there is a bit of, 'I told you' [games going on]. But we still learn together. And what is clear is that both sides are very conscious that you need that dynamic, you need that 'I told you' feeling sometimes in order to progress."
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